Accelerate Brazil, The Infrastructure & Investment Expo-Forum

Online, October 21, 2010 (Newswire.com) - The event will afford facilitators, lending institutions, suppliers and contractors the opportunity to promote and display the range of products and services which are critical to stimulating infrastructure based investment and project opportunities. The forum is designed to maximise opportunities to do business and expectations of a significant number of MoU's being signed are high.

Ahead of the forum, sponsors and exhibitors will be granted access to our proprietary 'Meeting Manager' software platform, which allows for sophisticated searching and scheduling of meetings with relevant potential partners, including government agencies, finance providers, lead contractors, and suppliers.

AccelerateBrazil will bring investors, facilitators, lending institutions, developers, suppliers and contractors together to explore a vast range of opportunities associated with the government's US$890bn Programa de Aceleração do Crescimento (PAC).

AccelerateBrazil has been designed to stimulate the vast range of infrastructure based investment and project opportunities associated with the PAC2 programme. As such, it will bring together key decision makers from across both the public and private sectors, affording each equally powerful benefits, some of which are set out below:

Government/Public sector

* Network with your peers in the government and public sectors
* Stay informed of government investment priorities / latest developments / initiatives, etc.
* Exchange ideas & develop mutually beneficial action-plans
* Meet key contractors, suppliers and service providers under one roof, enabling maximum efficiency and savings in purchasing decisions
* Investigate and identify outsourcing / co-funding / PPP opportunities

Private sector

* Network with your peers in the supplier/contractor community
* Stay informed of government investment priorities / latest developments / initiatives, etc.
* Identify infrastructure based opportunities
* Initiate negotiations to procure contracts with government & public sector project chiefs, key contractors, master developers, etc.
* Meet industry counterparts, facilitators, finance providers, etc.

Event Agenda

Day 1, Thursday, 26th May 2011

07:00 Registration opens
07:30 Decision makers' breakfast (strictly by invitation only)
09:00 Welcome address & opening remarks / Diop, Makhtar, Country Director, World Bank
09:15 Financing opportunities for infrastructure projects in Brazil
09:45 Q & A (followed by refreshment break)
10:15 Public-private partnerships and their potential
10:45 Q &A
12:30 VIP Luncheon
14:00 Principal vehicles for state and municipal fund-raising
14:45 Alternative financing sources: pension funds, development banks, export credit agencies
15:15 Q & A (followed by refreshment break)
15:45 Contracts & Procurement
16:15 Pre-qualification and tendering processes, submissions and evaluation criteria, etc .
16:30 Q & A
16:45 Regulatory frameworks
17:00 Close

Day 2, Friday 27th May 2011

09:00 Logistics & Transport
* Road
* Rail
* Air
* Ports
* Waterways
10:30 Refreshment Break
10:45 Panel Session - Logistics & Transport
11:30 Energy & Utilities
* Water (sanitation & potable)
* Electricity generation and distribution (hydro electric, wind, solar, biomass)
* Oil & Gas: resources & distribution infrastructure
* Biofuels
12:45 VIP Luncheon
14:15 Panel Session - Energy & Utilities
15:00 Refreshment break
15:15 ICT & Telecommunications
* eGovernance initiatives
* Broaband penetration & expansion
16:00 Panel Session - ICT & Telecommunications
16:45 The Built Environment
* Housing
* Commercial (retail, hotels, etc.)
17:30 Panel Session - The Built Environment
18:15 Close

For more information & Registration, please visit http://itevent.net/accelerate-brazil-the-infrastructure-investment-expo-forum